The photographs depict familiar rituals from hospital corridors: bleary-eyed parents, a doctor with sympathetic eyes, an exhausted male nurse, and female nurse performing an examination. The works are infused with the unknown disease to the extent that they seem to have been infected.

Ziv’s staged photography calls upon the viewer to try to decipher it. A close look at the photographs reveals their underlying fiction: an unnecessary or nonexistent measuring test, a negative inversion, and a voyeuristic point of view which is not attributed to any specific figure.

Between the imaginary and the real lies the possible. Ziv has chosen Tel Hashomer as a scene of action in his new private biography. He introduces a doctor, his friend Assaf (not a real doctor), who looks straight at the camera while sitting on his bed, a male nurse who is his brother in life, his father who was “caught napping”, and the pacifying-nauseating green typical of hospitals.

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